Like manna from black helicopter heaven, the Daily Kos alerts us to to a steamy crossover in the tin-foil hat universe:
John Zogby is polling for Ron Paul supporter and conspiracy theorist entrepreneur Alex Jones.
Which makes perfect sense when you thing about it. As the only Republican candidate with a – gasp! – reality-based foreign-policy platform (i.e., getting us the hell outta Iraq), Ron Paul’s made waves. But the rest of his platform is two-clicks away (or less) from Jones’ paranoiac bloviation. The following:
“So called free trade deals and world governmental organizations … are a threat to our independence as a nation. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites,”
may sound like a rambling suited for your next survivalist potluck, but no – it’s there in Paul’s “On the Issues” page. But really, bravo to this synchronicity – what a rich, and heretofore untapped (to my knowledge), cross-demographic slice of crazy!
But wait – there’s more!
Apparently Jones is miffed the results he expected to purchase from Zogby were to his histrionic liking. Cue the WATB:
“In their press release about the results of a new telephone poll, Zogby chose to marginalize Ron Paul by highlighting a demographic that was won by Rudy Giuliani, while largely ignoring the fact that the Texas congressman completely dominated almost every other aspect of the poll.”
Caveat emptor.
This article appears in November 16 • 2007.